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Holland1 Submarine 1902 - 1913 (work-in-progress)
Please read these notes.
This is the first stage of my project to model and animate the British Holland 1 submarine. It is a work-in-progress animation, and will be updated after further research.
In 1900 the British shipbuilder, Vickers, purchased a licence from the Electric Boat Company of the United States to build 5 Holland design submarines for the Royal Navy. These became Holland numbers 1 to 5. They were very similar to the US Adder class submarines. They were 64 ft in length, nearly 12 ft in diameter and displaced 110 tons. Propulsion was provided by a 160 HP petrol (gasoline) engine giving 8 knots when surfaced, and a 70 HP electric motor giving 7 knots when dived. Each submarine had a single tube to launch an 18 inch torpedo, with up to 2 reloads. The Holland submarines were used to assess the capabilities of submarines for attacking and also to work out anti-submarine tactics.
The Hollands were very limited in their capabilities and soon were superseded by larger Vickers designs.
Holland 5 was lost at sea in 1912. Holland 4 was used as a gunnery target while the other three were sold for scrap in 1913.
In November 1913, the obsolete submarine Holland 1 was being towed to a scrapyard when it foundered off the Eddystone lighthouse in the English Channel. She was salvaged in 1982 and underwent several years of treatment to counteract corrosion. She is now housed at the Royal Naval Submarine Museum at Gosport, England.
A 4-cylinder 160 HP gasoline (petrol) engine similar to that installed in the U.S. Adder submarines, but build by the Wolsley company in the UK, and an electric (shunt-wound) electric motor, which I understand was bought from the Electric Boat Company.
The petrol engine was started using the electric motor. There are three clutches to be engaged for the engine to drive the propeller. The one nearest the engine is a friction clutch - this can be engaged or disengaged while the engine is running. However the other two are dog clutches that can only safely be engaged when the shaft is stopped.
So the sequence is.
1. engage friction clutch
2. rotate the engine crank shaft (by hand) until the other two dog clutches can be engaged
3. start up the electric motor, which then cranks the engine
4. I have a concern now - there is a risk that sea water could leak past the (soot encrusted) exhaust valves when dived or the engine is stopped on the surface. Water in the cylinder is incompressible, so the either the cranking would stall or, worse, the compression stroke could crack a cylinder head. So there should be some relief valve that could be opened, or a mechanism to lift all the exhaust valves, regardless of the valve cam position before cranking begins, to blow out any water.
5. Once the electric motor has the engine spinning nicely, turn on the fuel and then turn on the ignition - and hopefully the engine will fire.
6. Current to the electric motor can then be switched off.
Acknowledgement:
My thanks to the Library of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth
References
Drawings - John Lambert
‘The Evolution of the Submarine Boat Mine and Torpedo’, Commander Murray F Sueter RN, 1907
Torpedo Manual Vol III, 1909
This is the first stage of my project to model and animate the British Holland 1 submarine. It is a work-in-progress animation, and will be updated after further research.
In 1900 the British shipbuilder, Vickers, purchased a licence from the Electric Boat Company of the United States to build 5 Holland design submarines for the Royal Navy. These became Holland numbers 1 to 5. They were very similar to the US Adder class submarines. They were 64 ft in length, nearly 12 ft in diameter and displaced 110 tons. Propulsion was provided by a 160 HP petrol (gasoline) engine giving 8 knots when surfaced, and a 70 HP electric motor giving 7 knots when dived. Each submarine had a single tube to launch an 18 inch torpedo, with up to 2 reloads. The Holland submarines were used to assess the capabilities of submarines for attacking and also to work out anti-submarine tactics.
The Hollands were very limited in their capabilities and soon were superseded by larger Vickers designs.
Holland 5 was lost at sea in 1912. Holland 4 was used as a gunnery target while the other three were sold for scrap in 1913.
In November 1913, the obsolete submarine Holland 1 was being towed to a scrapyard when it foundered off the Eddystone lighthouse in the English Channel. She was salvaged in 1982 and underwent several years of treatment to counteract corrosion. She is now housed at the Royal Naval Submarine Museum at Gosport, England.
A 4-cylinder 160 HP gasoline (petrol) engine similar to that installed in the U.S. Adder submarines, but build by the Wolsley company in the UK, and an electric (shunt-wound) electric motor, which I understand was bought from the Electric Boat Company.
The petrol engine was started using the electric motor. There are three clutches to be engaged for the engine to drive the propeller. The one nearest the engine is a friction clutch - this can be engaged or disengaged while the engine is running. However the other two are dog clutches that can only safely be engaged when the shaft is stopped.
So the sequence is.
1. engage friction clutch
2. rotate the engine crank shaft (by hand) until the other two dog clutches can be engaged
3. start up the electric motor, which then cranks the engine
4. I have a concern now - there is a risk that sea water could leak past the (soot encrusted) exhaust valves when dived or the engine is stopped on the surface. Water in the cylinder is incompressible, so the either the cranking would stall or, worse, the compression stroke could crack a cylinder head. So there should be some relief valve that could be opened, or a mechanism to lift all the exhaust valves, regardless of the valve cam position before cranking begins, to blow out any water.
5. Once the electric motor has the engine spinning nicely, turn on the fuel and then turn on the ignition - and hopefully the engine will fire.
6. Current to the electric motor can then be switched off.
Acknowledgement:
My thanks to the Library of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth
References
Drawings - John Lambert
‘The Evolution of the Submarine Boat Mine and Torpedo’, Commander Murray F Sueter RN, 1907
Torpedo Manual Vol III, 1909
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Imagine this cannon is the longest reload ever lol 😂
Am I’m having da va ju or did the video looks different?
Deadly clever design
This is genius !
This must have been a dangerous assignment
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weird to think these had starter motors a decade before Fords. But hey, if it can turn a prop, it can turn an engine over. And it always amazes me what I learn when I watch these. I know WHAT a governor does, but I had no clue HOW it limits/adjusts the throttle setting
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Please read the notes, at the bottom
why where they sunken at the end of the run if they missed?
Nobody wants to run over a floating torpedo with an live warhead....
@@vbbsmyt yeah... i thought maybe there's some less obvious reason.
Excellent demonstration of how a built-up gun is made
So this is the reason why they changed muzzle loading mechanism on rifled cannon to breech loading.
Wow. Thank you for your detailed and excellent work. I have read numerous times of the revolutionary French 75 cannon system. Thanks to you, I now have some understanding. Great stuff 😊👍
and imagine what a miracle it was to control the engine of the Focke-Wulf 190 airplane. It was literally an analog computer
Was it also fired via a lanyard through the hole in the trigger?
possibly...
How to cut rifling?
Всичко това се случва за за проливане на кръв и разрушение ,за забогатяване на много малка част от хората
Отличное видео! Спасибо!
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I don't really understand how you get the belt in and the door closed at the same time. Seems like they'd block one and other
This deaign was a lot more clever than history books indicated, But the interrupted thread would have helped a lot
Would the 12 and 20 pounder Rifled Armstrong guns be loaded in the exact same way, or was there some minor variation?
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Great video! I love seeing old tech like this, it's so simple and straight-forward. Keep up the great work!
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Как они прицеливались? На лодке не было перископа?
Periscope will be fitted in the next release
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Impressive video as always!
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Excellent animation on all of your featured weapons!!
Beautifully made, the explanation of the technique, the colours used, the incredible detail, wonderfull! The Holland1 was always one of my favorites. A perfect mix between a very modern submarine and the most original idea; the Nautilus of Jules Verne. Thank you very much.
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I wonder if people rode the gun up to its elevated position
Holland dream't of the Irish Fenian brotherhood taking on the Royal navy with his submarines, as things turned out he lost control of his company and the Royal navy purchased a number of them, they later manufactured variants under a licencing agreement.
Only a day old. No wonder there's no Spaniards here claiming Peral invented the submarine (which he didn't), or anyone claiming Van Drebbel invented it (which he also didn't).
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The same dynamo was used for starting the engine and for propulsion?
This type of sub could have easily sank the Titanic. Iceberg my a$$.